4August 2020
100 YEARS AGO( 1920 )
— R.J. Jeffries, editor of the Alliance Review, purchased the Columbiana Ledger, a weekly publication, and was to take personal charge of it with the intent of publishing daily.
— The Alliance Chamber of Commerce voted all to re-elect W.H. Ramsey as president in addition to the whole slate of officers that consisted of J.S. Spring (very first vice president), A.A. Mulac (second vice president), G.C. Baxley (secretary) and S.L. Sturgeon (treasurer).
— All potteries in Sebring were virtually closed down due to a strike.
— It came as quite a surprise to learn that Guy E. Allott, manager of the Allott Hardware Co., and Gwen Jones, night manager at Alliance City Hospital, had actually snuck off without any friends or household understanding and had actually married and were on a honeymoon in the East. Jones, who had actually lived on South Arch Avenue, was the youngest daughter of Mrs. Josephine Jones and sis to Mrs. F.A. Hoiles and Mrs. E.P. Lorentz. Allott, the kid of B.C. Allott, was a graduate of Mount Union College where he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega. He was also the graduate manager of the college's football group and considered a popular man of the city.
75 YEARS AGO (1945 )
— Dr. Bernard Quinn, who lived in the 300 block of East Main Street and had actually been a practicing chiropractor in the city for 30 years, died at the age of 74. Born in Alliance, he spent all but 6 years (those spent in Carrollton) of his life in the city. He was made it through by his partner, Flora Crubaugh Quinn, and a boy, Robert, who was serving in the South Pacific with the U.S. Army. Three children– Bernard Jr., Melvin and Claude– preceded him in death.
— Sebring McKinley had a new athletic director and head football coach for the 2nd time within a week. Ralph Gattrell, veteran basketball coach who had actually been announced as athletic director, football coach and baseball coach, had resigned to take the head basketball post at Martins Ferry. To replace him, John Fife, previous Canton Lincoln High line coach who resigned at Alliance to take a comparable post in Sebring, was to become the head football coach and athletic director at the school, according to Superintendent S.H. Pollock, who also announced he had a verbal agreement with Bray Toot, a 21-year veteran coach with the last 11 at Dellroy, to be the head basketball coach. Proclaim had coached Gattrell at Leesville. Fife had starred at Washington & & Jefferson and had actually coached for a year at Mount Union.
— Two Alliance guys– Thomas J. Atchison and Arthur F. Dundon– were amongst 277 medical school graduates evaluated qualified to receive certificates to practice medicine in Ohio after passing the state board assessment. Atchison had gone to Ohio State University and was acting as a lieutenant in the Navy, completing his internship at Bainbridge Naval Hospital in Maryland. Dundon, a Mount Union graduate who participated in medical school at Western Reserve and was commissioned a lieutenant upon graduation, was on non-active status while completing his internship at South Side Hospital in Youngstown.
— Alliance's Jack Lang, a member of Battery C of the 37th Division, was promoted to primary warrant officer while stationed at Luzon. He had gotten the Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit.Source: daily-jeff. com